Rippling textured fabric



Feb. 15,1955 F w, E. HOESELBARTH 2,702,056

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United States Patent RIPPLING TEXTURED FABRIC Frank W. E. Hoeselbarth, Carlisle, Pa., assignor to C. H.

Masland and Sons, Carlisle, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application September '28, 1954, Serial No. 458,816

1 Claim. (Cl. 139-403 The present invention relates to textured uncut pile fabrics of the character of carpets and rugs.

A purpose of the 'inventoin is to produce a rippling eflect in a textured pile carpet having an uncut pile.

A further purpose is to soften the gradation between two tones of color in the pile of a carpet or rug.

A further purpose is to produce a velvet pile fabric such as a carpet or rug having two pile warps which produce uncut loops which are high and low in the same transverse row, all of the maximum pile loops in the various rows being of the same height and all of the minimum pile loopsin the various transverse rows being of the same height, and having the ends of one of the pile warps all of a given color and each end of the other pile warp having at least one ply of a different tone or shade of the given color and the remainder, consisting of at least one ply, of the given color.

Further purposes appear in the specification and in the claim.

In the drawings I have chosen to illustrate one only of the numerous embodiments in which my invention may appear, selecting the form shown from the stan..- points of convenience in illustration, satisfactory operatoin and clear demonstration of the principles involved.

Figure 1 in the drawing is a warp-wise weave diagram showing the fabric of the invention.

Figure 2 illustrates a pile warp end of one pile war in perspective and Figure 3 similarly illustrates a pile warp end of the other pile warp.

Figure 4 is a face view of a carpet according to the invention.

In carpets and rugs, where two tones of the same color have been used in different frames to weave velvet pile carpet, difficulty has been encountered in obtaining a natural effect due to the tendency of the plies or yarn ends of different colors to stand out sharply in contrast and produce a relative harshness in the final result.

I have discovered that it is possible to obtain a softening or more natural appearance in loop pile velvet carpets and rugs employing two or more pile warps having different tones of the same color by using wavy pile loops having the same maximum and minimum height in the respective rows to create a shadowing which tends to reduce the contrast and impart softness.

Thus, a general rippling effect is created which makes the appearance much more attractive and restful to the eyes.

In accordance with the invention, the technique used for weaving velvet or, more properly, tapestry pile carpets is employed, using two or more pile warps, and raising all of the ends of each pile warp successively in transverse rows of high and low pile loops appearing in the same row. This is desirably accomplished by weaving each of the pile warps over wavy wires having high portions and low portions within the shed which are respectively of the same height on the different wires.

The positions of the high points on the successive wires are desirably displaced laterally across the fabric according to any texture pattern as well-known.

All of the ends of pile warp A meet one particular color and tone,--and all of the ends of pile warp B are 2,702,056 Patented Feb. 15, 1955 Thus on the face of the fabric the different tone appears, but it is pronouncedly shadowed in intermediate and low areas softening the over all effect.

Any suitable technique to produce the carpet or rug may be employed For example, in Figure 1 I illustrate a fabric having a backing 20 which is formed by interweaving face wefts 21 in front of stutfer warp 22 and lower wefts 23 behind the stuffer warp by binder warps 24 and 25 which respectively reverse between each pair of wefts.

Pile warp 26 is raised over alternate noncutting wavy transverse pile wires 27 having high and low portions on the wires within the shed and bound behind each alternate face weft while pile warp 28 is raised over intermediate noncutting wavy transverse pile wires 27 having high and low portions on the tops of the wires within the. shed and bound behind face wefts intervening between the alternate face wefts.

The high portions 30 and the low portions 31 of all the wavy wires are respectively at the same height so that after the wires are pulled the final fabric has high loops" which are all at the same height in the different rows and low loops which are all at the same height in the different rows.

Each end 32 of pile warp 26 consists of a ply 33 and a ply 34 twisted together, and both of these plies are of the same color and same tone.

Each of the ends 35 of pile warp 28 consists of a ply 33 of the same color and tone as the plies of pile warp 26 and a ply 34' twisted together. The ply 34 is of the same color but a different tone from the other ply 33 of pile warp end 35. Thus ply 33 may be light gray and ply 34' may be dark gray, or ply 33 maybe dark brown and ply 34' may be light brown, or ply 33 may be light green, and ply 34' may be a darker green.

Figure 4 shows the face of a fabric produced in accordance with the invention, using plies 33 and 34 of a light gray and ply 34' of a dark gray. As shown in this figure, in areas 36 the light gray forms high pile and in areas 37 the light gray forms low pile. In areas 38 the dark gray appears in the same yarn with the light gray in high pile and in areas 40 the dark gray and light gray in the same yarn appear in low pile.

The feature that should be noted is that there is a softness and natural effect in this fabric due to the ripples applied to the tone variation and the fact that the high and low loops are at the same height.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art, to obtain all or part of the benefits of my invention without copying thefabric shown, and I, therefore, claim all such insofar as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A velvet pile carpet having a backing and having two pile warps bound in the backing, alternating in transverse rows of uncut loop pile projections, and all of the ends of each pile warp being raised in the alternate rows, the pile projections in each row having high loops and low loops, the high loops of all of the rows being of the same height and the low loops of all of the rows being of the same height, each yarn end of one pile warp being all of a given color and each yarn end of the other pile warp having at least one ply of a different shade of the given color and the remainder, consisting of at least one ply, of the given color.

No references cited. 

